CNN's curmudgeonly commentator Jack Cafferty yesterday tried to re-introduce race into the presidential campaign, claiming Sen. Barack Obama's race could cost him the election.
These kind of statements usually come out when the victim/candidate is not doing as well in the polls as he or she should be. And that's Obama's position right now.
Some commentators claimed Obama's skin color(associated with him being half black and not half white) gave him an advantage in news media coverage. Perhaps the better explanation is that Obama's newness has rubbed off his image as an agent of change and that giving the same speech over and over ultimately puts people to sleep.
The matter of race was going to have to re-emerge some time, after its head briefly broke above ground during primary races in Pennsylvania and West Virginia.
But now Cafferty -- who was very pro-Obama and anti-Clinton during the primaries -- has yanked the race card out of the ground and is flashing it before viewers to see who will notice. Afterall, getting noticed is the first responsibility of a commentator. That keeps you on the air and selling new books.
So here is what McCafferty has to say about race, Obama and the presidency:
http://caffertyfile.blogs.cnn.com/2008/09/16/obama-race-a-factor/
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Jack Cafferty has us gun-clinging, religious types in flyover country figured out, doesn't he?
Jack, the reason why Barry Obama is not doing well with the American electorate stems from the fact he is a SOCIALIST! The same old liberal ideas pushed by the democrats will continually be rejected. That is the reason Barry is doing well, you race baiter.
Seriously, if Barry was white, he would have lost in the primary to Hillary.
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